Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2002, published 91st ILC session (2003)

Equality of Treatment (Social Security) Convention, 1962 (No. 118) - Rwanda (Ratification: 1989)

In reply to the Committee’s previous comments, the Government confines itself to indicating that the information contained in its last report remains unchanged. The report also refers to statistics on the approximate numbers of foreign nationals on the national territory which, unfortunately, have not been received by the ILO.

The Committee hopes that the necessary measures will be taken in the near future to give full effect to Article 5 of the Convention in relation to branches (d), (e), (f), and (g). It once again requests the Government to confirm its previous statement that Convention No. 118 is in principle regarded as an international convention within the meaning of section 44 of the Legislative Decree of 22 August 1974 to organize social security, as amended by Act No. 32/1988 of 12 October 1988, which provides that benefits are suspended when the beneficiary does not reside within the national territory, except in cases of reciprocity agreements or international conventions. Please also indicate whether the payment of benefits to beneficiaries resident abroad is made on this basis in practice.

Furthermore, the Committee would be grateful if the Government would continue to provide information on any new agreements concluded with States which have accepted the obligations of the Convention for the branch or branches in question (Uganda is not one of these States) with a view to ensuring the maintenance of acquired rights or rights in course of acquisition, in accordance with Articles 7 and 8 of the Convention.